Going to a parent friend’s birthday with many of our friends who have kids, so there’ll be a gang of young, screaming kids…

  • Scrubbles
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    41 year ago

    Gotta agree with the other person. I’m not a fan of kids, even posted yesterday about having kids in places I don’t like there being kids, but you’re going to their party and they have kids.

    In this case if you don’t want to be around kids you can not go to the party, otherwise it’s one of those things you do for your friends.

    • @LauchsOP
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      61 year ago

      Oh absolutely. I’m not saying I wouldn’t go. It’s just the general, pretty much as the gif says, “I hope it’s worth the noise.” Like, if visiting my buddy also meant getting kicked in the balls, I’d hope our friendship and the visit were worth it.

      But also, the older I get and the more of my friends have kids, the more of those social events to see those old friends involve loud, sticky children. (And heck, I’m pretty good at playing with them as not having children, I mysteriously have more energy than most.) They’re my friends, so I go. It’s just seeing those friends is less great than it once was, which is saddening.